SAMPANS SUNK
AIR OPERATIONS IN BURMA. WRECKING OF A LOCOMOTIVE. ENEMY SUPPLY DEPOT BOMBED. (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright.) (Rec. 10 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 25. A communique issued in India states: “Yesterday Royal Air Force Beau fighters and Hurricanes on offensive patrols continued to attack enemy communications in Burma. Along the Irrawaddy and the Lower Chindwin 13 loaded supply sampans were sunk and sa number of others damaged. Damage was also inflicted on sampans and other river craft on the Kaladan River. “A few miles east of' McL Tila, Beaufighters wrecked a locomotive with cannon a machine-gun attack. “A formation of Vengeance divebombers attacked a Japanese supply depot at Baguua, south of Buthidaung, and many bombs were seen to burst on the target.
“From those operations none of our aircraft is missing.”—British Official Wireless.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 271, 26 August 1943, Page 3
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